Federal agencies require a simple way to correlate all security-relevant data so they can manage their security posture. Instead of merely watching events after they occur, agencies should anticipate their occurrence and implement measures to limit vulnerabilities in real time. For that, agencies need an analytics-driven SIEM platform such as Splunk. However, once data is correlated by SEIM tools, it becomes extremely valuable. By integrating...

Join us for a complimentary webinar on April 23rd to discuss how Thales TCT and VMware can help you secure your hyper-converged data. VMware has partnered with the industry leader in access control encryption and key management solutions to allow its customers to secure data and centralize keys on their hyper-converged platform. Many government customers have now realized file-level access control, encryption, and key management are substantia...

High speed networks are the critical foundation that supports many of an agency's most vital communications and operations. However, this foundation is at risk of surveillance and attack by increasingly sophisticated cyber criminals and well-funded nation states. These network connections, if unprotected, are proving to be highly vulnerable, leaving sensitive assets exposed. Threats such as shared infrastructure exposure, man-in-the-middle att...

Federal agencies require a simple way to correlate all security-relevant data so they can manage their security posture. Instead of merely watching events after they occur, agencies should anticipate their occurrence and implement measures to limit vulnerabilities in real time. For that, agencies need an analytics-driven SIEM platform such as Splunk. However, once data is correlated by SIEM tools, it becomes extremely valuable. By integrating...

Certificate-based, multi-factor authentication is a mainstay security technique used by the U.S. Federal Government to ensure the identities of entities within a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). For human users, multi-factor authentication is easily facilitated by using a secure smart card or USB token. But what about non-person entities (NPEs), like devices or software? These entities still must have hardware-secured credentials to meet secur...

High-performance computing (HPC) has long expanded from research labs to commercial use. Computational modeling and simulation along with high-performance data analytics using HPC systems are prevalent in industries from the design and manufacturing of aircrafts to consumer goods, life sciences, energy, and financial services. The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and its symbiotic relationship with HPC has augmented traditional method...

The rise of cyber attacks signals the current approach to security isn’t working, and the industry must make a radical shift to ensure protection of its most important asset – data. Enter Zero Trust. A defined roadmap and lack of cohesive security solutions places the burden of technology integration and partner orchestration on the customer. This results in organizations implementing a self-defined approach made up of an assortme...

Cloud Security Alliance best practices require that keys be stored and managed outside of the cloud service provider and the associated encryption operations. Cloud Service Providers therefore offer Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) or Hold Your Own Key (HYOK) services to enable customer control of the keys used to encrypt their data. Customer control of the keys allows for the separation, creation, ownership and control, including revocation, of encr...

Without secure, enterprise-managed identity systems, adversaries can take over user accounts and gain a foothold in an agency to steal data or launch attacks. The Federal Zero Trust Strategy prioritizes defense against sophisticated phishing and directs agencies to consolidate identity systems so that protections and monitoring can be consistently applied. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) plays a critical part of the Government’s strat...